At least a couple of times on the show, recently, I've heard you guys use the phrase, "x fold" where x is equal to some number. Admittedly, your most recent usage, when you were talking about the number of snitch calls made to the IRS about tax dodgers increasing from 160 or something like that, to over 1,600 in a year, was not your fault, because you were reading the claim directly from some article. The problem is, 160 to 1,600 IS NOT (as far as I know) the same thing as "ten fold"...which is what the article said.
"Ten fold" is actually 1,024 TIMES larger. The reason for this can be explained by imagining you are folding a piece of paper. If you fold it once, you have 2 portions (1 x (2^1)). If you fold it a second time, you have 4 portions (1 x (2^2)). And if you fold it a third time, you have 8 portions (1 x (2^3)).
Therefore, if you apply "ten fold" to 1, you get 1 x (2^10), or 1 x 1,024. In other words, the increase in the article was "ten times"...not "ten fold". 160 increased by ten fold is equal to 163,840.
Most people probably already know this, and I suppose it's not such a big deal, but still...it irritates me when I hear people confusing "x times" with "x fold" (because they are vastly different).